Dy CM inaugurates 4th State Level Watermelon Festival

IMPHAL May 25: Deputy Chief Minister Gaikhangam inaugurated a week-long 4th State Level Watermelon Festival being organized by Nahakpam Foundation for Development (NFD) at GM Hall today. Other guests of

IMPHAL May 25: Deputy Chief Minister Gaikhangam inaugurated a week-long 4th State Level Watermelon Festival being organized by Nahakpam Foundation for Development (NFD) at GM Hall today.

Other guests of the inaugural function included Prof J M Laishram and Dr Chinglen Meisnam.

The festival is being held with the sole objective of promoting the economic benefits of farming water melon. A total of 12 stalls are participating in the festival.

Speaking on the occasion as chief guest, Gaikhangam who also holds the portfolio of Home asserted that the festival is meant for encouraging both the growers and buyers of watermelon which is a potential cash crop.

He called upon the growers of watermelon to accelerate its production so as to boost economy of the state.

Admitting the grievances about the present lack of processing units and market linkage of watermelon in the state, the Dy CM said that feasibility to provide facilities for extracting juice will soon be discussed with the concerned officials.

For the time being, farmers should be mindful that diminishing productivity will contradict the intention of the government towards enhancement of watermelon production, he said.

He appealed to the concerned rich philanthropies to invest and support the endeavours of local farmers in cash crops like watermelon.

The Dy CM further encouraged farming diverse crops and improving work culture towards a self reliant state.

Shanta Nahakpam of NFD in his keynote address stated that farmers have been growing watermelon in the state since the mid 1970s but it was only after the massive import from Burma since 2000 that farmers realize the economic potential of this cash crop.

Regarding the government support, he said that seeds for 300 to 400 acres are availed from the department and its products are exhibited in the festival.

There is a need for more support to expand the watermelon economy with value addition. The government can support by facilitating food processing and encouraging the farmers with irrigation facilities. Several watermelon farmers are dejected due to the lack of government support which further dims their economic prospects despite the high yield, he said.

He expressed hope that the government will extend all possible help in turning the farming of watermelon into an industry and expand the benefits for the watermelon farmers.

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UP girl denies minister`s misconduct; Karnajit charged of illegally operating Club-25 Int`l

By Paojel Chaoba IMPHAL, May 25: Charges were made to the Agriculture minister Abdul Nasir implicating him of harassing two women delegates by self claimed General Secretary of Club 25

By Paojel Chaoba

IMPHAL, May 25: Charges were made to the Agriculture minister Abdul Nasir implicating him of harassing two women delegates by self claimed General Secretary of Club 25 International, Manipur, namely K Kanarjit at Manipur Press Club.

The ongoing investigation of Kanarjit and his dubious claims have shed new light on various matters including the charges in this sexual harassment case. Two women were named by Kanarjit, one from UP whom the minister harassed by texting late at night, the other was implied to have done something bordering on sexual harassment by the minister , the woman hails from Nepal.

They both had stayed at the Classic Grande in April for the World Youth Summit 2015.

As charges were hurled and counter claims were made by the minister refuting Kanarjit`™s claim. This reporter was able to contact the activist from UP.

Sanjana (name changed) through mail said that she does not even know the name of the minister. She wanted her exchange with Kanarjit in Messenger yesterday to be printed here, it was at 8.47 pm. Sanjana said ` What did the agricultural minister did with me can you please tell me as of the knowledge I have regarding me, he didn`™t message me nor did anything to me. I am a human rights activist and I know very well how to defend the things and with the proper channel.`

Sanjana mentioned that Kanarjit did not answer her.

She also texted him the next sentences, ` There is a limit of bluffing. For hiding your scams, you are misusing my State and my name. How much more you bluff. My goodness, I had never expected this from you. You have done lacs of scam that`™s why your nomination got cancelled from IYONS. You have two daughters ahead of you. Before bluffing, think of your daughters once. And I am warning you if again you misuse my name or my state name, I am going to sue you under section 500 of IPC. Mind this.` She added that she has been victimized by Kanarjit for no reason. Sanjana has given approval for these statements to be published in other media houses also.

So, the picture unfolds against the claim of Kanarjit by the same person he had implicated. The other woman from Nepal, Sushma,(name changed) cannot be contacted at the moment but reliable sources have confirmed that only a verbal altercation occurred and there was no physical harassment from the minister`™s side. The matter with Nasir was also resolved at the moment as the matter was not very abusive. However, this reporter is still trying to contact her personally.

The Kanarjit affair unfolds of lies and deceit perpetrated by himself for his momentary gains.

In another separate issue, Kanarjit when asked what his designation was by this reporter at Manipur Press Club, he had replied that he is the General Secretary of Club 25, International Manipur. It has also come to light that Kanarjit is misusing the Club 25 name to gain advantage as he did then with UNESCO.

An e-mail came to this reporter from Club 25, International Director Stephanie Benedetti. She had also attended the Global Youth Meet held here in 2014. According to her, `Many GYM members were trapped in Manipur because of the lies of KK Singh. In 2014, I was invited to come as a special guest, we (Club 25) told KK that we would not sponsor the event, and questioned his relationship to UNESCO.` The e-mail links that the director sent stated that many delegates were disgusted with the way the meet was organized. Many who thought that it was organized by UNESCO found out that it was a lie later. `Foreign South East Asian attendees were informed that they would receive $ 300 as travel stipend by Kanarjit, this did not really happen and took a lot of arguing with the organizers, at least some tickets were purchased for some delegates. There were lots of tears, as apparently many of the attendees had taken out loans from family members and their Universities to attend the Meet and now ,they did not find a way to pay back because the amount promised was not given.` This resulted in many foreign delegates almost getting stuck with their finances. The details of the mails of the foreign delegates humiliation and disgust are held back. Kanarjit has managed to promote Manipur in the worst way possible and that also to foreign and domestic delegates.

Club 25 International director also stated her stance in the mail to this reporter. It may be mentioned that during the Press Meet of Kanarjit, he had identified himself as the General Secretary of Club 25, International Manipur. He also said that the Club permits him to use a flagpost for his cars, this too turned out to be blatant lies. The statement made by Stephanie , International Director of Club 25 is reproduced below.

Club 25 has at no time authorized KK Singh to utilize the name “Club 25 International, Manipur”. There is a registered “Club 25-Manipur Chapter” in our formal records, though KK Singh is not listed as the leader. All Club 25s are 100% volunteer clubs who choose their own leaders and organize their own meetings. We have had communications in the past with KK Singh specifically reminding him that he does not have permission to start other Club 25s or to take authority over any existing clubs or start new clubs in other states of India or neighboring countries. KK Singh has attempted to assert himself over Club 25s in other states in India and neighboring countries to take a leadership role and at Club 25 International we have repeatedly turned him down.

2. Any person/youth who donates blood is allowed to be a “Club 25″ member. KK Singhs membership status in Club 25 would be open to all blood donors.

3. At no time has Club 25 International, given permission to Mr. Singh to claim titles or to use VIP flags or other status symbols or to utilize the Club 25 International name or logo to recieve preferential treatment or status.

4. The Club 25 name and logo is owned by Safe Blood for International, Inc, based in the United States. Permission of the use of the name/logo for a restaurant was NOT requested/granted from Club 25 International/Safe Blood and would be operating illegally under that name.

5. At no time has KK Singh or Club 25 Manipur received any funding or fiscal/material support for their activities from Club 25 International.

This statement proves that Kanarjit is a con artist who has been nominated for the World Youth Icon Award, 2015 to be given at IYONS ,2015. He has misled the media, duped people of lakhs, falsely announced himself as a Dr Ambedkar Award recipient, operated under false organizations and misrepresenting Club 25 and UNESCO, puts an unauthorized flag post in his car, falsely charged minister Nasir of sexual harassment and implicating two women delegates in order to save himself.

The report of this paper is based on facts and records and Kanarjit is welcome to claim that the report is baseless.

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How McMahon Drew His Line and Why the Chinese Want It Changed

By Pradip Phanjoubam Prime Minister, Narendra Modi was virtually silent on the vexed border issue during his just concluded visit to China, belying expectations of many in Arunachal Pradesh. While

By Pradip Phanjoubam

Prime Minister, Narendra Modi was virtually silent on the vexed border issue during his just concluded visit to China, belying expectations of many in Arunachal Pradesh. While there were 24 bilateral agreements signed, a majority of them business related, both the countries for the moment seem to think the border issue can wait. Hence, in the eastern sector, India will continue to consider the McMahon Line as its undisputed boundary, and China will continue to treat the line as illegal. Arunachal domiciles intending to travel to China will also have to continue be content with stapled visas.

There is more to China`™s claim over Arunachal Pradesh than mere contest to possess this large strip of sparsely populated mountainous territory. The state is where almost all of the major tributaries of the mighty Brahmaputra originate from, and therefore controlling it would virtually amount to possessing a vital handle in controlling not just the rest of the Northeast, but also Bangladesh. And China`™s yearning for an easier access to the Indian Ocean, and from there on to Africa and the Arabian Peninsula is well known. Besides its tremendous hydro electric potential, these mountains then are also important geo strategically.

That said, China`™s assertive claim to Arunachal Pradesh is relatively recent, and probably influenced by works of Western scholars like Alastair Lamb, who were of the opinion that the Bengal Inner Line Regulation of 1873, which created what came to be known as the Inner Line, along the foot of the mountains that surrounded the plains of its new territory of Assam acquired in 1826, was actually the extent of the British territory. Lamb claims there was also an Outer Line, and it was at most places identical to the Inner Line. This despite the fact the British were always careful to qualify that the Inner Line was not the international boundary and that it was only a line to demarcate its revenue from its non-revenue territories. At the time, the tea industry was beginning to boom and tea planters, always covetous of land, were constantly encroaching into the hills, getting into confrontations with the `wild` hill tribes. The British saw the prospect of perennial punitive expeditions into the hills wasteful, therefore thought of this line to ensure British subjects went beyond it only with official permits. Others like Neville Maxwell, author of `India`™s China War`, went farther to say that the Inner Line was the Outer Line, and that this Outer Line was pushed to where the McMahon Line is by the British only in 1913-14 during the Simla Conference. If this argument is allowed to hold, then the contiguous territories of Nagaland which is also beyond the same Inner Line, and further south, Mizoram, should also be outside India.

Beyond this confusion over the Inner Line, created deliberately or otherwise, the claim that Arunachal Pradesh is South Tibet has little basis, except perhaps in the narrow Tawang tract, contiguous in the west with Bhutan, Sikkim and Kalimpong-Darjeeling tracts. Tibetan Buddhism`™s or cultural influence in the rest of Arunachal Pradesh is virtually nil.

At the start of the Simla Conference in 1913, as Parshotam Mehra notes, the Chinese plenipotentiary, I-fan Chen, was unsure where the Indian boundary was when McMahon asked him, and could only come up with an answer the following day and this too using French maps as evidence. The Chinese at the time also had no presence in Tibet, as they had been thrown out by the Tibetans in 1911, immediately after the fall of the Qing Dynasty in the wake of the Republican Revolution in China. The Chinese were at their weakest and it has been argued that they were invited to the Simla Conference only in view of a technical necessity of a treaty the British signed with the Russians in Saint Petersburg in 1907. This treaty, literally forced by the British on the Russians, weakened at the time by a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Japanese in 1905, prohibited the British or the Russians from entering into any agreement with Tibet, and if any negotiation became absolutely necessary, this was to be done through Chinese mediation.

It must be recalled here that British Tibet policy at the time was determined not by any fear of the Chinese, but of the Russians, in what is referred to as the Great Game. It is known how the British claimed the barren white dessert of Aksai Chin with the aim of blocking any Russian push into Tibet. Not content with this, it also signed the 1907 treaty to further ensure Russia was kept at bay, even though Russia on the eve of the WWI had become an ally of the British. But, as Lamb notes wryly of the 1907 treaty, as in judo, the Russians used the weight of their opponent to defeat them, and indeed, the British ended up tying themselves up hopelessly with this seeming victory. To their dismay, the British also found out soon enough that the Russian could still exercise their influence in Tibet through Mongolia which was under its shadow then, and particularly because the trans-border Buddhist Buriat tribe lived both in Siberia and Mongolia. And Mongolia, to quote Lamb again, was then under the `Tibetan Buddhist Church`.

China did briefly become a threat to British complacency towards 1910, during the Qing Dynasty`™s last desperate burst of imperial energy which still confounds analysts, pursuing a very aggressive forward policy in Tibet, just before its ultimate fall. After entering Lhasa, the Chinese started probing neighbouring principalities of Sikkim, Nepal and Bhutan. Sikkim was a British protectorate, Nepal had a robust army, but it was Bhutan the British were worried of. At the behest of Charles Bell, a civil servant and Tibet expert, the British quickly paid the Bhutan king a visit, and had him agree to renegotiate a 1865 treaty to ensure China cannot take the kingdom. The 1865 treaty essentially was an understanding by which the Bhutias were not to raid the Duars plains for which the British would annually compensate them, a system obviously modelled on the Posa in which Ahom kings allowed hill tribes to levy tax (Posa) in kind from certain villages in the foothills on the understanding there would be no raids. The Ahoms bought their peace in the manner, acknowledging the subsistent economy in the hills would compel the hill tribes to raid the richer plains in the lean seasons regardless of punitive measures. The 1910 Bhutan Treaty merely added one paragraph to the 1865 treaty putting Bhutan`™s foreign affairs in the hands of India. The British were however saved of further anxiety for the Qing Dynasty fell soon thereafter.

These then were the British urgency to call the Simla Conference. The Chinese ultimately did not sign the Simla Agreement, but as it was, I-fan Chen was kept in the dark while the McMahon Line was being drawn. The Chinese was taken into confidence only in the discussions on the proposal for creating an Inner and Outer Tibet, on the Mongolian model. The McMahon Line was drawn through secret exchanges of notes between the Tibetan plenipotentiary, Lonchen Shatra and the British team under Henry McMahon. But the Simla treaty was not published immediately in the Aitchison`™s Treaties, the Government`™s official record book, paving the way for a long bitter controversy. Some argue this was an acknowledgment by the British of the illegality of this treaty, pending ratification by China. Others say this was again solely for fear of displeasing Russia as the Saint Petersburg Treaty made Chinese mediation of any settlement with Tibet mandatory. The treaty was ultimately published in 1938 by Olaf Caroe. By then, Tsarist Russia had fallen and the new Communist regime abrogated most of the treaties concluded by the Tsarist regime. The controversy over the McMahon Line however still refuses to go away.

The McMahon Line followed the watershed principle of map making and to the extent possible ran along the highest ridges of these eastern Himalayan ranges. The exception was at Tawang which as on the Tibetan side of the watershed. The British felt that leaving this tract, which comes too close to the Assam plains, would be too dangerous for India, therefore negotiated to have the McMahon line north of it. The Tibetans agreed, believing this was a bargain that the British would guarantee a boundary between Tibet and China. However, even though Tawang was put on the Indian side of the border, recognizing the cultural and ethnic affinities of Tawang with Tibet, the border was left open and Lhasa was allowed to collect its traditional levies from Tawang. When Communist China entered Tibet in 1950, the equation altered. In a plan hatched by civil servant Nari Rushtomji, and executed by Maj. R. Khathing, a Tangkhul Naga from Manipur in 1951, this traditional tributary relationship was put to an abrupt end. India only notified the Tibetan Government at Lhasa and not Peking of its intention to take over Tawang. China nonetheless made no protests, and Neville Maxwell cites this episode in `India`™s China War` as evidence of China`™s willingness to settle with the McMahon Line as the international border, given New Delhi`™s willingness to negotiate.

(The writer is editor, Imphal Free Press. His book, written as fellow Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, on the geopolitics that shaped the physical map as well as psychology of the Northeast is due to be published later this year.)

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Komren Union-NE president laments government`s silence against disturbances to ADC election

IMPHAL, May 25: The State government has failed to take any action against all the undemocratic activities witnessed in the run up to the Autonomous District Council Election in the

IMPHAL, May 25: The State government has failed to take any action against all the undemocratic activities witnessed in the run up to the Autonomous District Council Election in the State, Komren Union NE India president Lalkhomang Serto claimed today.

He was speaking at the flag hoisting ceremony of independent candidate from 23-Nongmaiching ADC constituency Saikul block, Sadar Hills East Sailenthang Bosco Kom.

He said the ADC election is crucial for the people of the hills of Manipur.

The people of the hills should elect their right representative through this election to fight for them, he continued.

However, it is unfortunate that the last election of the ADC was more of a selection than election, he added.

And as such no developmental projects were taken up in the hill areas during the last five years, he said.

It is also unfortunate that we are witnessing several undemocratic organisations are interfering this time in the conduct of the election, Serto continued.

These organisations are issuing threats and pressures to candidates to withdraw their candidature creating a fear psychosis among the people, he also added.

He said some militant outfits under the Suspension of Operation treaty with the governments are also trying to endorse candidates.

Many village heads and chiefs are also under pressure and threat to support certain candidates, he said.

Overlooking all these, the State government has remained silent, failing to take up any action which is very unfortunate, Serto asserted.

We are not satisfied with the government action, he added.

Serto also appealed to all armed groups not to get involved in the election process.

The Komren Union strongly decries any threat or ultimatum to candidates threatening them to withdraw their candidature or stop campaigning he said appealing to all to ensure the free and fair conduct of the election.

Instead of resorting to such actions, it would be better if everyone gets involve in making the election a free and fair one, he said.

Sailenthang Bosco Kom said the ADC will ensure provision of employment opportunities, developmental schemes and health and education schemes among other schemes for the development of the hill villages.

According to Kom, his main vision is to bring a positive change to the lifestyle of people of the hills, build up unity and provide the true provisions of democracy to the people.

He said health, education and development are his main focus areas.

He continued he also aims to highlight the sporting talents from his constituency.

Today`™s function was also attended by around seven headmen, village chiefs, members of women unions and other villagers from five villages of the constituency.

It may be mentioned hat nongmaiching has 27 villages and has 4391 voters.

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